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Monday, November 27, 2017

This Week in Television History: November 2017 PART IV

As always, the further we go back in Hollywood history,the more that fact and legend become intertwined.It's hard to say where the truth really lies.

November 28, 1962

Talk-show host and comedian Jon Stewart born.Stewart’s irreverent take on national and world
events has been a huge hit with audiences and has even led some viewers to cite
The Daily Show as their primary source of news.

Raised in Lawrenceville, New
Jersey, Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz attended the College of William and Mary and
after graduation began performing stand-up comedy at clubs in New York City. In
1991, he became host of Short Attention Span Theater on Comedy Central,
which was followed in 1992 by You Wrote It, You WatchIt on MTV.
In 1993, he hosted a half-hour program, The Jon Stewart Show, also on
MTV. A late-night, nationally syndicated version of the program launched
the following year but was cancelled in 1995.

In January 1999, Stewart took over hosting duties of The Daily Show
from Craig Kilborn, who had hosted the show since its 1996 debut on Comedy
Central and left to replace Tom Snyder as host of The Late Late Show.
With Stewart in the anchor seat, The Daily Show typically opens with a
monologue about the day’s news stories, followed by a satirical report from one
of the program’s “fake news” correspondents. (Previous correspondents have
included Steve Carrell, who was a Daily Show regular from 1999 to 2004
and went on to star in such movies as The 40-Year-Old Virgin,Little
Miss Sunshine and Get Smart and the NBC sitcom The Office.
Another Daily Show correspondent, Stephen Colbert, left the program in
2005 to launch his own spin-off, The Colbert Report.)During the
final segment of the half-hour Daily Show, Stewart conducts interviews
with politicians, authors, Hollywood celebrities or other newsmakers. The
Daily Show has won multiple Emmy Awards, and in 2004 Stewart and his
writing staff released a best-selling mock-history textbook titled America
(The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction.

In addition to hosting The Daily Show, Stewart served as master of
ceremonies for Hollywood’s biggest annual event, the Academy Awards, in 2006
and 2008. His own movie career, which includes appearances in Playing by
Heart (1998), The Faculty (1998)and Big Daddy (1999),
has yet to win him any Oscars. On The Daily Show, Stewart has mocked his
roles in such box-office bombs as 2001’s Death to Smoochy.

November 28, 1997

The final episode of "Beavis and Butt-head"
aired on MTV.

When
Highland High's secretary calls Beavis and Butt-head's home to see why the boys
aren't in school, Beavis falsely claims that he and Butt-head are dead.
Principal McVicker is pleasantly surprised and even stops his typical nervous
shaking. Mr. Van Driessen mourns the loss and tries to get the class to
remember something good about the obnoxious duo, though Daria echoes most of
the class's sentiments by saying "it's not like they had bright futures
ahead of them". The school faculty mostly agree (except Van Driessen) that
although they never liked Beavis and Butt-head, they should exploit their apparent
deaths to make their trouble worthwhile. Beavis and Butt-head see news that
someone died at school, and decide to show up anyway. Just as Principal
McVicker is on camera, holding a jar full of the memorial charity's change
saying he would (hypothetically) trade it to have Beavis and Butt-head back,
they greet him to his shock and end up in possession of the jar. Beavis and
Butt-head walk off into the sunset, believing that they are rich and have no
need to attend school anymore. This episode was the original series finale, up
until the 2011 revival.

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